The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-12
Speaking from Fourteen Stands at One and the
Same Time-A Resolution Adopted
by All simultaneously
Anti-Coercion.

walls in the great throngs. Many of the
banners exhibited bear portraits of
Mr.. Gladstone, Michael Davitt and
Father Keller, and the inscription jus
tice for Ireland Fourteen platforms
for the Use of orators have been erected
in Hyde Park, and occupy the whole
frontage facing the fashionable Park
Lane
All those taking part in the procession
from the East To the West End of London
will wear green rOsettes To initiate the
emblem of the shamrock. 4 large force
of police are held i'm reserve for any
emergency.
MONSTER PROCESSION.
The gathering in Hyde Park this after
noon was the largest ever held in Lon
don. The people were enthusiastic. but
orderly. A motion protesting against
the Coercion bill was offered simultan-
eously from fourteen platforms and car
ried amid great enthusiasm.
The Socialists stole a march ON the
police and erected platforms from which
several speakers delivered orations. They
afterwards held a noisy meeting in
Trafalgar Square.
Mrs. Gladstone watched the anti
coercion procession from window in
Piccadilly and was given an ovation by
the men in line.
The estimates of the attendance AT the
meeting vary, but it is certain that $50. =
600 persons. including lockers on. were
present. The procession took one hour
| and a half To file into the park. The
first contingent was composed of mem
bers of Robert Emmett Lodge: then fol-
lowed "A large number of Irish temper
ance lodges. Radical workmen's clubs
and Social Democratic societies. MI
merous bands of music We're in the line.
While passing the Carleton and other
Conservative clubs the band played the
Dead March in Saul and the Marseil-
laise. Green banners and Irish National
| emblems We're conspicuous in the ranks
of the paraders. Among the mOttues
displayed on the banners of the Radicals
| We're these: Justice To ireland.
.'Friendship, not Bayonets." NO Coer-
cion.''
The effect of the careful arrangement
that had been made to avoid confusion
at the park was seen in the admirable
| order i'm which the paraders grouped
themselves around the fourteen plat
forms. The greatest throng gathered at
| the platform from which Lord Mayor
Sullivan of Dublin and Cony ybeare and
William Redmond, VI. Ps., spoke. Lord
Mayor Sullivan in the course of a most
effective speech asked:
LORD MAYOR SULLIVAN SPEAKS.
lis it the wish of the wurkmen of
London that the honest hard working
tenantry of Ireland shall he forever
| crushed down. Tremendous responsive
| mo, resounded throughout the
| park. The mention that the Queen
| was about to celebrate her jubilee by
| signing away the liberties of the people
| of ireland, brought fourth a torrent of
hisses and the mention of Chamberlain :
name caused a tempest of misses and
| groans and cries of Traitor
Sullivan, i'm concluding, assured hi-
hearers that the demonstration would
carry hope and JOY into the hearts of the
Irish. Ii would cheer many poor strug-
Cling man To know that England was n'
| enemy of ireland. In return. he said
| Don't let them believe those who say
the Irish are the mortal implacable enc
mics of England. That is falsehood
| worthy of the fathomless pit. Cheers.
Let there be an end of oppression and in
| Justice. and there will be an end oi
hatred Prolonged Cheering.
MICHAEL DAvITT's GRAFTON.
| Michael Davitt appeared at the Social
lists platform. He referred To the de-
monstration as a proof of the approach
ing solidarity of the people of Great
Britain and Ireland. In proportion a
the masses begafY to understand each
other. the classes became alarmed. The
privileged classes well knew the inevita
bile tendency of the Irish movement and
sought to crush the Irish leaders, hoping
to prevent the English people from fol
lowing the example set them by tbt
Irish. But they would hold fast in Ire
land [Cheersl- On the day on which the
Grimes Act should become a law they
would either have To give up the strug-
| gle that had been waged foI
centuries and lie down as slave~
or render the system impossible
Of duration. They would follow the man,
| lier course Glasses had in the past built
a bridge of hate across the Irish Sea. The
people would pull it down and erect a
bridge of love between the toilers OF
Ireland and the honest workers of Eng
land. lCheers.
John Burns. a Socialist leader. followed
Davitt He declared that the state OF
Ireland justified civil war. and that the
English people were ready to assist the
| Irish peasants in revolt.
REsOLUTToN OF CONDENSATION.
At 4:30 O'Clock the bugle sounded. and
| at this prearranged signal a resolution
eondemning the Grimes Bill was pu,
simult aneously at all Of the platforms.